Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes; Who loving novels, full of affectation, Receive the manners of each other nation.1
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First Week, Second Day.
Note 1. Report of fashions in proud Italy, Whose manners still our apish nation Limps after in base imitation. William Shakespeare: Richard II. act ii. sc. 1. [back]